MFA login and outside emails

tellison

We have SAML set up for Canvas login using Google authentication for our students.  This works fine. We have a class(s) that we need to be able to enroll people outside of our active directory, for example, students taking a dual credit course.  Is this possible if SAML is turned on?

mzimmerman

Hi @tellison 

If you are just using local logins for some people, they can always access local (non-SAML) credentials by going directly to the Canvas local login page at  https:// [my canvas server] /login/canvas .   Instructure refers to this as the "Login Release Valve" on the Google SAML config page https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Integration-Documents/Configuring-Google-SAML-and-Canvas-Authentication/ta-p/387357#toc-hId--1484180031 

You can actually have several different authentication providers, but if you want users to be able to pick which authentication provider to use when they go to Canvas, you will need a "discovery page", or else users will be taken to the first auth provider in the list by default, unless they know the URL for the specific auth provider login page they want to use.